friday night at the von nowaks

its friday night and raining slightly, we are having a few drinks outside as the evenings are so very nice. you can hear the rain off the tires of the cars going by but the evening is awesome....because its friday, we are home together and going to have a nice dinner and we are with our dogs. does life get any better except for Grandchildren>

Ellsworth car and tractor show

fun day looking at cars and tractors, big swap meet but only one little treasure to be found.
Pork sandwiches and a beer in the shade was a welcome treat as the sun was very hot,...but no humidity.
We enjoyed the day and were home by 3:30

i think we will go again next year, there were some great cars at this show.

Eddy

Ed, you handsome boy, takes after his Dad who has given him a wonderful personality. Ed is layed back and does not care about anything except wagging his tail and being happy. He is great with getting his teeth brushed every night. Collies have a tendency to have bad breath and dirty teeth for some reason, so after a vet bill to choke a horse we decided it was worth brushing his teeth at night. He is such a good boy, he would let you do anything to him and he just looks at you with unconditional love. How we love our dogs. Ed,,,,your very special to us.

cash, cash the dog.

first, treasures. this is ONE semi full of stuff, I had to fade it out because it was the only way it looked good. LOL. He has semi after semi full of some good, some not so good. All good to him I guess.

Cash, Lou can never not feed or pet or kiss or talk to a dog.

No matter where we go, he finds dogs...........and..........they love him. He brought hot dogs for Billy's dogs Pam and Cash. Cash thought it was worth the standing to get one of these treats.

Paver day two Lou and Cash

Cash, Billy's german boy. Beautiful personality and disposition and protector of the grounds. Sure he and Pam (girl sheppard) bark and look intimidating but when you get out they are all kisses, well not Pam, she is very shy. So day two with pavers was much cooler and nice for loading up the truck. We managed about as many as the day before even though we though.....thought.....we threw more on. None the less we are half way there and from the photos you can see they are CLEAN........I MEAN CLEAN. This is going to save us hours of labor and sweat. We are happy to say the least. Today is Lou's birthday, Happy Birthday Lou.....it was a good day, we hung back and visited most of the day and had steak and shrimp for supper which was outstanding and now we are relaxing a bit looking over the pictures from today photo shoot.
let me talk about people who collect stuff. bILLY has trailers and trailers full of HIS treasures. I know people have good intentions, either its too good to throw out, has a useful purpose within a certain time frame or you will sell later and get rich. Hummmmmmmmmmm, wonder what Billy is thinking. None the less, it was great for pictures and THANK YOU BILLY FOR THE PAVERS.

Happy Birtyday Lou
Pavers, hot and humid, 250 collected only 20 to clean.
wow.

Man and Dog (Matte Joe)

this car is a super buy we got in Waukesha at the car show. Lou saw this car and we kept walking around it and looking at it and admiring it, (along with many other car enthusiasts) It is a chopped down model T roadster. Old Hot Rod out of the 40's, 50's.
Lou wants to take Matte to Bonnerville as she requires less luggage than myself. LOL. There is no room for anything but Lou and his girl....Matte Joe. As you can see she is proud to be with her dad in this car and someday it may even run now that Lou is retired and has time to work on the things he loves. Dogs and cars (and me). She is ready and willing to go when he say's "LETS GO MATTE" and she is up and willing to go anywhere, anytime. Man and dog.......how sweet!!!

here she is again

Matte Joe,
Dads girl, she takes great photos and I will flickr her on a german shepard site soon.
she is into catching flies right now and darn good at it I must say. Lou says "go get em" and boy she jumps and her tail goes up and sometimes she even gets one. How can you not love them to pieces??

we have decided to put her on flicker on the german sheppard site. she is beautiful and after looking at the pictures last night decided she deserves a spot on their site. she is a delight and could win a prize for the best looking German girl. we love her.

new experience at farm and fleet

i was checking out and guess who was checking me out as i looked up. Jane Wall....to my surprise I said when did yo start working here and her repsonse. "we are not talking" and she proceeded to check me out and said thank you Mam......I had to laugh. (not in her face of course) but here I am after seeing her 5 years past and trying to be nice and she blows me off like a hot marshmallow. OH well....wonder how she likes her new check out job and wonder why shes working for farm and fleet. Im sure we will see each other often as lou and I shop there all the time. interesting.!!!!!!!!

My Big Boy

Edmund Joseph, sweet as pie and I love this dog. He is the love of my life as Matte is for Lou. He's a collie though,......he has a tendency to wander off without us knowing,..thus, poor Ed cannot be outside with us unless we are all sitting around in the evening. Another habbit Ed has is barking. yes..........hes a barker. I dont like steady barking thus.........."SHOCK COLLAR" yup....dont like to and put it on a low setting and one zap and hes good for a long time.....but just look at that face.

Matte Joe our girl

you are the love of our life Matte Jo.Such a good girl in every respect. She is a delight and can be outside with us all day without worry, however if someone does come, she is right there to greet them and let them know this is her house. However after the first sniff and "its ok" statement is made she is fine and goes back to resting and waiting in watch for chipmunks. This is Lou's Girl!!!